After I completed my draft, my professor told us to take out two different highlighters. We were to pick a page then highlight everything that was my own words in one color and highlight others' thoughts, ideas and information in another color. The objective was to visually see, when the highlighted pages were laid out across the table, how much I use my own voice and how much I use other voices. I found that I used my voice to start off a paragraph and then added some information from the sources I found and then added commentary. It is crucial to make sure your voice is the one being heard and not someone else's because, after all, it is your research paper with you own ideas.
I found that not all of the paragraphs I investigated were like this. I have a tendency of switching around from a completely opinionated paragraph to a factual paragraph and I think it's probably more effective to find a balance in between so the paper can flow easily.
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